Make the syntax ugly? - so you cant avoid seeing it? On 29 October 2010 19:40, Andrei Alexandrescu <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org > wrote:
> On 10/29/10 12:18 CDT, dsimcha wrote: > >> == Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org)'s >> article >> >>> To recap: >>> 1. Arbitrary cost copy construction: >>> + Makes value types easy to define: just hook the copying code into >>> this(this) >>> + Is familiar to programmers coming from C++ >>> + If it fails, fails early, not surprisingly during a later operation >>> >> >> BTW, I don't see why failing during a variable assignment is any less bad >> than >> failing during any other seemingly innocuous operation. >> > > One problem is that copying is often implicit and as such more difficult to > see with the naked eye. > > Andrei > -- // Yours sincerely // Emil 'Skeen' Madsen
